Wednesday, April 21, 2010

iPhone 4.0 beta 2 interweaves updated APIs, animations

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1004/iphone4-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has released a second developer beta of iPhone 4.0, building in more of the firmware's eventual features. The update is said to include "significant API additions," mostly in areas related to multitasking and background processes for audio, VoIP, location services and task completion. An app can now, for instance, request as much as 10 minutes to finish a task, rather than just five....